Alice Roberts

You can somehow get access to what is perceived to be a better school by either being religious or appearing to be religious. That is unfair.

I have family connections with Salisbury through my godmother. Her sister lived there, so I have very fond memories of visiting the city as a child.

The environment would be better off and everyone would be healthier if we stopped eating meat.

The paleo diet is utter nonsense - it is such pseudoscience.

Biological anthropology tends to focus on skeletons because that's what is often left behind in the ground, but I am a whole-body anatomist, I'm a clinical anatomist and that's what I teach, I teach it all, not just the skeleton, the muscles and nerves, blood vessels.

Then the BBC approached me in 2005 and asked me to be one of the presenters of the series 'Coast', which turned into a very long-running series.